Let's not call it a push for control when it's all about the demand, number of people willing to buy higher is currently low because speculation in markets are towards the down side and they fear to lose if and only if the trend continues to slide lower. The fact actually is, when too much FUD happens in the markets, there comes a bigger possibility of bears to make moves (not control, but make their moves) to pull the price down to their expectations, but this also gives chance to bulls to accumulate more and throw out weak hands off the markets to stop the unnecessary selling pressure that's being created by the bears. This is where bulls push it off harder (either through a pump or via stable times to outsmart bears in their own game) as well as create chaos amongst other medium and low level players to spice up the price a bit more with their money.


That was just for alts as Bitcoin had been moving in zigzag (pump-dump and make that triangle) style only since last 6 years after accumulation was already done at a very high scale, but I think that there's still the same pattern we're going to witness this year again with the alts as many are already showing the same breakouts and are being moved damn higher specifically focusing on their fundamentals.